Tolerance

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The Story of Adam and Steve?

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I would say with pretty good certainty that marriage came before property rights. Consider that it existed hundreds of years before the concept of deeding property. Some form of it goes back to when the Bible was written as the Story of Creation places one man and one woman together. If this was not the practice at the writing then we would not have a story of just Adam and Eve but Adam something else.

BTW: Dower interest protects the female, not the male.

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It just seems to me that in this day and age that a "contract" with time limits would be more appropriate. Those things that each person believes are implied at the ceremony that are soon discovered to be incorrect, both parties would be better served in a contract form. None of this bullcrap of for richer or poorer, till death to us part stuff. It all to often doesn't work out that way. Instead of the misery of a divorce, the couple could just let the contract expire, no fuss no muss. If people want to get married, fine with me [I am]. The only legal enforcement of the vows is the property division when the partners realize reality. My .02

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I also firmly believe future partners should live together first, I think for two years min. optimally. And communicate what their expectations are and how important each item is. The heck with this discovery after the fact stuff. I am also against "joint checking". or joint credit [cards]. I don't believe that the partners can be equals. Someone will be the dominant one. Someone has coined these surprises in other terms such as "wonders", boy that can work out to be a misnomer.

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Hey, I read divorces and if you do not thank whomever is your personal god that you have not seen what I have seen.

I do thank God, or I try to everyday. I'm starting to get a bit forgetful. There is no one that knows the two of us very long that doesn't feel the need to point out how lucky I was to "hook-up" with my wife. I can only agree with them.

After getting a divorce, there were those that were willing to physically try and stop me from getting re-married . If I did not, the way I saw it, it would be a lie. Honesty has always meant a great deal to me. I look at my wife sometimes as my reward for what I went through the first time. I, like 38% of males, would not leave my kids until they were grown. That's my sad story, and even that is a fading memory. It is wonderful now, and I feel blessed every day.

ps; we have joint everything including advanced medical directives. When it is good, it is the promise fulfilled, the only way I can imagine it any better is to imagine it longer. But I don't see this happening for most.

The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW

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Since no one objected, I must not of been clear in my meaning.

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Nareed had asked how I treat the people I claim to be biased against. And perhaps that's the difference - I greet them the same as I do anyone else. A greeting, a welcome, a shake of hands, whatever the situation decrees. And I have certainly "hung out" with city folk, and I've had pleasurable conversations with them, and some I've even had an overall "great time" with. Perhaps that makes me not a bigot, I dunno.

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I was just using the example to show we all have prejudices and stereotypes and some level of bigotry, and THAT'S OK.

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Asimov tells how he used to be accosted by astrology enthusiasts at Mensa meetings and events (BTW this proves the limitations of IQ as a measure of intelligence or rationality).

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Acceptance means treating people right, even when you're prejudiced against them.

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El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz.